Seminar 03
The Artist鈥檚 Practice
Seminar questions
- Was the organization of the artists鈥� workshops different from that of artisans in Renaissance Florence?
- Were the claims of artists to belong to the intellectual elite supported by their working practices?
Suggested reading
Binski, Paul, Painters, London 1991 [ND 140.B4]
Cole, Bruce, The Renaissance Artist at Work: From Pisano to Titian, Boulder 1983 [N 6915.C6]
Gage, John, Colour and Culture. Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction, London 1993, ch. 7 [ND 1488.G2]
Goldthwaite, Richard A., The Building of Renaissance Florence: An Economic and Social History, Baltimore 1980, chs. 5, 7 [HP 2582.G6]
Hall, Marcia, Color and Meaning. Practice and Theory in Renaissance Painting, Cambridge 1992 [ND 1488.H2]
Humfrey, Peter, The Altarpiece in Renaissance Venice, New Haven-London 1993, ch. 4 [N 7952.B8]
Ladis, A. - Wood, C. (eds.), The Craft of Art. Originality and Industry in the Italian Renaissance and Baroque Workshop, Athens (GA)-London 1995 [being processed]
Matthew, Louisa C., 鈥榃orking Abroad: Northern Artists in the Venetian Ambient鈥�, in Renaissance Venice and the North. Crossroads in the time of D眉rer, Bellini and Titian, ed. by Bernard Aikema and Beverly Louise Brown, London 1999, pp. 61-69 [ND 621.V5]
Matthew, Louisa C., 鈥榁endecolori a Venezia: The Reconstruction of a Profession鈥�, The Burlington Magazine, 1196 (2002) [Arts Periodicals]
McNeal Kaplow, Harriet, 鈥楽culptors鈥� Partnerships in Michelozzo鈥檚 Florence鈥�, Studies in the Renaissance, 21 (1974), pp. 145-175 [Jstor]
Pope-Hennessy, J., 鈥楾he Interaction of Painting and Sculpture in Florence in the Fifteenth Century鈥�, The Journal of the Royal Society of the Arts, 117 (1969), pp. 406-424 [Arts Periodicals]
Thomas, Anabel, The Painter鈥檚 Practice in Renaissance Tuscany, Cambridge 1995 [ND 619.T8]
Wackernagel, M., The World of the Florentine Renaissance Artist, Princeton 1981, chs. 11-12 [N 6921.F5]
Welch, Evelyn, Art and Society in Italy, 1350-1500, Oxford 1997, chs. 1-2 [N 6915.W3]
Wilson, Jane C., Painting in Bruges at the Close of the Middle Ages: Studies in Society and Visual Culture, University Park, Pa., 1998, ch. 4 [ND 671.B7]